When AI Reads Between the Lines: OCR vs. VLMs

Can machines truly understand documents, or have they simply become more effective at extracting information from them? With traditional OCR, an error can usually be located and measured, while a VLM may produce a convincing interpretation that is still wrong. For companies, this shifts the first decision away from model selection and toward a more uncomfortable question: what kind of error can the business afford? The boundary between recognition and understanding becomes a practical question…

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